Tags say what a record is; these scales say what it is like, on a 0 to 100 range two records can be compared on. Below is a set of landmark prog releases scored on all of them, each at what the community has it at. The set also carries 47 hugely popular non-prog records that mark the bottom of each scale; they stay off the table until you ask for them.
19 scales of one quality. The bar's length is how much of it there is: nothing at the left, as much as the site can describe at the right. Deeper colour, more of it.
none → extreme
8 scales between two opposites. The bar grows from the middle towards the pole the record leans to, so almost no bar means “neither”, not “nothing”.
first pole → neither → second pole
4 further readings can be worked out from these scales: the site's three criteria and the umbrella over them. Nobody scores them, so switch them on under Columns below to see what each is made of.
A cell with no bar is an axis nobody has scored yet, which is not the same as a zero. See the tags for the rest of the vocabulary.
Every value here is what the membership has the record at: the same trust-weighted blend of every member's placement that the record's own page shows, on the twenty-seven scales and the three criteria alike. Nothing here reads one member's rows. Which records are on the map is a judgement in two parts: SiteCurator and Mike mark a record at full relevance, and the membership must hold it at 60 or more on one of the three criteria, so getting a record onto this page is those two accounts' call, and keeping it here is everyone's. The non-prog records are the exception: they mark the bottom of a scale, so the second test would rule them out.
Today that blend is thin. Of the 270 records here, 34 have more than one member behind them, and the rest stand on a single assessment. Most came from one automated pass by a machine account, which makes the rows comparable but is also the whole of their authority. Nobody has checked that pass.
The three criteria marked beside each release are shaky too: around half of their values were never typed by anybody, since assigning a genre that implies a criterion writes it onto your rows. So a tick is not reliably anyone's opinion.
Only members can fix both. Open a record you know well (the scored set is a good start) and score it under Coordinates in its editor. You need not answer all twenty-seven scales; the ones you are sure of beat a complete guess. Answer the three criteria directly rather than leaving a genre to do it. Your values move these pages too, so a second and third assessor are all it takes for a scale to become the site's reading.
Showing 50 of 223 releases — the first 50 of the 223 that match, in the order below. Click a column heading to sort.
| Composition | Performance and Sound | Character and Range | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After CryingFöld És Ég | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Agitation FreeMalesch | 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aksak MaboulUn Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits | 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amon Düül IIYeti | 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AnekdotenVemod | 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ÄnglagårdHybris | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Animals As LeadersAnimals As Leaders | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aphrodite's Child666 | 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ArcturusLa Masquerade Infernale | 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ArkBurn the Sun | 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art BearsHopes and Fears | 1978 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ash Ra TempelAsh Ra Tempel | 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AutechreTri Repetae | 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AyreonInto the Electric Castle | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AyreonThe Human Equation | 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Banco Del Mutuo SoccorsoDarwin! | 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BattlesMirrored | 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bent KneeLand Animal | 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Between The Buried And MeColors | 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Big TrainEnglish Electric Part One | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Country, New RoadAnts From Up There | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black MidiCavalcade | 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blind GuardianNightfall in Middle-Earth | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BoredomsSuper æ | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brand XMoroccan Roll | 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brian EnoAnother Green World | 1975 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CamelMirage | 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CamelThe Snow Goose | 1975 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CamelMoonmadness | 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CanTago Mago | 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CanEge Bamyasi | 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Captain BeefheartTrout Mask Replica | 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CaravanIn The Land Of Grey And Pink | 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CardiacsSing To God | 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Celtic FrostMonotheist | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ClusterZuckerzeit | 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ComusFirst Utterance | 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Curved AirAir Conditioning | 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CynicFocus | 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czesław NiemenEnigmatic | 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David BowieLow | 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deathspell OmegaFas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Devin TownsendInfinity | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Devin TownsendTerria | 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Devin Townsend ProjectDeconstruction | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don CaballeroAmerican Don | 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dream TheaterImages and Words | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||